whenever people talk about primal urges half the time they’re talking about something sexual, but it’s like, sometimes you just gotta climb a flight of stairs like that, you know? it’s like my body is telling me, “buddy, five thousand years ago everyone would have bolted up stairs on all fours. it’s okay, it’s natural.”
1) YOU CANNOT VOTE ONLINE. THIS IS FALSE INFORMATION TRYING TO STOP YOUNG PEOPLE FROM VOTING. YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY GO VOTE!!
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at work we have a family of three huskies who come in for daycare and everyone calls them “the mafia” it makes me so happy because occasionally out of nowhere someone over the radios will say “we’re sending in the mafia” and then three huskies barrel their way inside and usually slip and fall on the tile ajfjajg
the white one is zephyr but everyone calls him the godfather and his sisters follow him around everywhere and they’re a tiny gang which i love
Found this reddit post. This kinda makes me feel better. And it’s something I think about sometimes because I always feel like regardless of how hard I work on something I don’t get anywhere.
Psychology is amazing folks and more of it needs to be common knowledge
YOUR BRAIN IS AN ORGAN AND DEPRESSION IS A REAL PHYSICAL THING THAT HAPPENS TO IT. THIS IS REALLY SUPER IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER.
Yeah your brain literally isn’t making the corrections and selections it’s meant to when you’re depressed - dean Burnett has a very accessible & plain English section on that in “the idiot brain” (is the last chapter)
I find this really helpful (which is a bit odd, because generally I’m not one for the totally chemical approach, given meds not helping me much) I wish my diagnosis person had told me about this when I was freaking out about my loss of ability to learn/pick up new things. It had not occurred to me that it could be part of the depression package.
Can you remind me to reply when I’m not on my phone because there’s something I need to add about neurochemistry and meds vs therapy and how brains work which I think might help
are you not on your phone anymore? I am curious, I wanna learn new things
ok thank you.
i don’t have dr burnett on me right now (he has sources for this in the appendix) but:
1. the more recent research suggests that meds (MAOIs and SSRIs and whatever the acronym for the dopamine reuptake inhibitors is) which attempt to raise the water levels of neurotransmitters linked to reward pathways for the Good Shit are kind of working at one of the symptoms rather than the cause; seratonin & dopamine etc are low in yer synapses when you’re depressed because of something else. raising those levels can have the knock-on effect of making it easier to do things and thus unfuck a little more but it doesn’t always work because we don’t yet have the whole of the picture, read the last chapter for a more coherent overview. [my memory is spam in a can since the anaesthetic so i apologise for garbled recollection]
2. how your brain does the Thing, any Thing, is to swoosh the electrics down the noodles and send a bunch of little keys around the immediate area. anything with the appropriate lock goes “ah, incoming”, and swooshes more power along in Directions. Our noodles get better at this the more we use them that way. They can be stimulated with drugs (MORE KEYS FOR EVERYONE), told to shut up with drugs (LESS OF THIS KEY), or encouraged into swooshing noodles via other stimulus (which is why exercise helps some people, or CBT helps some people, or prayer is more likely to help people who have a predisposition to religiosity). The noodles are reluctant and need help to swoosh, and sometimes yer keys or locks are on strike, or everyone’s a bit rusty, or someone left open the thing that makes the keys that fit the “feel like wank” locks come out.
basically, it’s all chemical, it’s just that sometimes the most effective way to get the chemistry working more equitably is “push lever, create neurotransmitter, repeat until habit is formed” rather than “repeatedly create neurotransmitter without push lever”. human bodies & brains are wildly complicated & tbh it’s a testament to quite a lot of selective pressure that they’ve got to this level of non-frequent upfuckery. i’m pretty sure if i tried to make a thing that did all the stuff a brain does using proteins & flinging electrons about it would get as far as trying to inhale once and them promptly break.
hillary clinton told a joke at the al smith dinner tonight. it’s a very simple joke. and these two CNN panelists have completely misunderstood it at every turn. it is making me so god damn angry.
the gist of the joke is “when i look at the statue of liberty, i see all the things that make our country great [blah blah blah.] when donald trump looks at the statue of liberty he sees a 4. maybe a 5 if she loses the torch and the tablet.”
and this fucking moron is saying that the joke is funny because the statue of liberty looks like the number 4.
which is not what that joke is saying at ALL.
her follow-up to this joke was:
“you know what i think a good number for a woman is? forty five”
(because if she’s elected, she will be the forty fifth president)
and this dipshit on CNN is chuckling like “yeah, i think forty five is a good age too”
When sexists don’t understand they’re the butt of the joke because they’ve never heard a joke at their expense imo
my fave greek history story to tell is that of agnodice. like she noticed that women were dying a lot during childbirth so she went to egypt to study medicine in alexandria and was really fucking good but b/c it was illegal for women to be doctors in athens she had to pretend to be a man. and then the other doctors noticed that she was 10x better than them and accused her of seducing and sleeping with the women patients. like they brought her to court for this. and she just looked at them and these charges and stripped in front of everyone like “yeah. im not fucking your wives” and then they got so mad that a woman was better at their jobs then them that they tried to execute her but all her patients came to court and were like “are you fucking serious? she is the reason you have living children and a wife.” so they were shamed into changing the law and that is how women were given the right to practice medicine in athens
